The manifesto launched in April 2019 by CECRA, the European Council for Motor Trades and Repairers, could be an important step in fleets keeping some level of control over the information that their vehicles generate. The document asks the EU to introduce an “interoperable, standardised, secure and open access telematics platform” to ensure a level playing field on connected car data. Peter Golding, managing director at FleetCheck, said: “Clearly this is an EU campaign